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...There is only one way to reduce unemployment in France: you have to explain to the French people that they have to work harder." NICOLAS SARKOZY, French Interior Minister, on the proposed liberalization of employment law that has sparked more than two weeks of mass protests across France...
...PERESTROIKA? We think the introduction of perestroika in the Soviet Union [in 1985] was one of the three most significant events in Soviet history--the others are the 1917 revolution and the victory in World War II. On the 20th anniversary, we thought it important to note it and explain it. And while there has been sharp debate in Russia about perestroika--many people have considered it a bad thing for the country--I think people are starting to change, and polls are showing people appreciate what it did for the country. Seventy-seven percent of Russians say they want...
...fears of the unknown, the unknowable and the unstoppable - of disease, death and natural disaster. Although Wolpert is a passionate promoter of science, he still recognizes that religion has its benefits and that in some things "reason will never triumph over superstition." The Nobel-prizewinning physicist Niels Bohr once explained why he kept a horseshoe nailed to his wall. It was not because he believed it would bring him good luck, but because he'd been told it would do so even if he didn't believe it. "How can one argue with such logic?" said Bohr. Wolpert, who took...
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...gone right at the most powerful lobby in town (as well as the President's own agenda), and they were not amused. Last January Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said of the House bill, "It is simply unworkable, unreasonable and fundamentally unfair." Asked to explain how big business could have been blindsided so badly by Sensenbrenner, Laura Foote Reiff, co-chair of the Essential Workers Immigration Coalition, a huge business lobby, said, "The House Judiciary Committee does not share and was not willing to share with...